Lake Sibaya, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.
Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)
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Madagascar.
Photographs © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA)
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Bandundu province, DRC.
Photograph © Paul Latham (UK)
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Distribution |
From
South Africa to Senegal and to Sudan, also Madagascar.
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Biology
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Pollinators:
Elisabethiella bergi
bergi
(west Africa) and
Elisabethiella bergi breviceps (southern
Africa & Madagascar).
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Habitat
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In savannah
woodland, in marshy places.
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Description
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Biological
form
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shrub
or tree up to 15 m tall, terrestrial
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Leaves
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shape
& colour
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ovate
to eliptic, coriaceous, apex obtuse, base ±
cordate, both surface glabrous to hirtellous (midrib)
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size
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6-20
x 4-12 cm
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lateral
veins
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7-11
pairs, basal pair branched reaching margin at or below the middle of the
lamina
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petiole
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2-4
cm long, glabrous to hirtellous
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Stipules
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1.5-4.5
cm long, white puberulous, caducous
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Figs
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position
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up
to 4, in the leaf axils
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shape
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globose,
Æ
1-2 cm (fresh), smooth to puberulous
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peduncle
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0.5-1
cm long
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basal
bracts
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2
mm long, persistent
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References
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Berg,
C.C. 1988. New taxa and combinations in Ficus (Moraceae) in
Africa. Kew Bulletin 43: 77- 97.
Berg,
C.C. 1989. Moraceae. In: R.M. Polhill (ed.) Flora of Tropical East
Africa.
A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
Berg,
C.C. 1990. Distribution of African taxa of Ficus (Moraccae).
[Proc. 12th AETFAT]. Mitt. inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 23: 401-405.
Berg, C.C. 1990. Annotated check-list of the Ficus species
of the African floristic region, with special reference and a key to the
taxa of southern Africa. Kirkia, 13: 253-291.
Berg,
C.C. 1991. Moraceae. In: E. Launert & G.Y. Pope (eds) Flora
Zambesiaca 9, 6. Natural History Museum, London.
Berg, C.C. & Hijman, M.E.E. 1989. Chapter 11. Ficus. Flora of
Tropical East Africa (ed. R.M. Polhill). 43-86. A.A. Balkema,
Rotterdam.
Berg, C.C., Hijman, M.E.E. & Weerdenburg, J.C.A. 1984. Moracées (incl.
Cécropiacées). Flore du Gabon 26: 1–276.
Berg, C.C., Hijman, M.E.E. & Weerdenburg, J.C.A. 1985. Moracées (incl.
Cécropiacées). Flore du Cameroun 28: 1–298.
Berg, C.C. &
Wiebes, J.T. 1992. African fig trees and fig wasps.
Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Amsterdam, 1-298 pp.
Bouček Z.,
A. Watsham & J.T. Wiebes, 1981. The fig wasp fauna of the
receptacles of Ficus thonningii (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea).
Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie, 124(5): 149-233.
Burrows, J. &
Burrows, S. 2003. Figs of southern & south-central Africa.
Umdaus Press, Hatfield. 379 pp.
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Credits
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Photographs
© Jean-Yves Rasplus
(INRA)
or © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa)
or © Paul Latham (UK). |
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Ficus vasta
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